Chapter 31: Addictive
The warm touch in his arms smoothed his taut nerves.
That fine, dense Mental Power seemed capable of healing everything.
In the narrow tunnel, amidst dense pollution larvae and fierce combat.
Shi Ye’s body temperature gradually climbed, so hot that Chi Wan’s cheeks turned slightly pink. The scent filled with wildness filled her nose.
The irritability value on the optical computer dropped to 83%.
Chi Wan breathed a sigh of relief, then her attention was drawn by a powerful force.
His thick arm secured her, protecting her steadily, making her almost embedded in his body. But even so, there were still strong tremors and energy fluctuations.
Wherever her vision could reach, powerful black-red energy suddenly erupted, controlling the corpses of all the pollution larvae on the ground to float!
Then they all shot toward the deep, dark tunnel where pollution larvae kept drilling out!
After a heavy smashing sound with strong tremors, thousands of pollution larvae corpses formed an airtight wall, tightly plugging the tunnel entrance.
The control ability was terrifyingly powerful.
The surroundings instantly quieted down from the massive noise. The screeches of the pollution larvae came through the thick wall of corpses, the volume greatly reduced.
Chi Wan, released, was just about to distance herself from him when she met a pair of crimson eyes.
Shi Ye lowered his head, his expression looking down at her extremely restrained.
The veins on his neck and his violently heaving chest all showed his extreme endurance.
Chi Wan looked at his optical computer. 80% irritability value.
It had dropped, dropped a lot, so why did he look like he was about to go berserk?
She wanted to back away, then heard his incredibly hoarse voice:
“Not enough.”
“What… is not enough…?”
He moved a step closer to her. His lowered body brought him closer and closer, like a beast sniffing its desired prey. The rough skin of his face grazed the shell of her ear. On his face, which was extremely restrained and showed no emotion, his crimson eyes revealed everything:
“Why is your Mental Power so addictive?”
It was clearly a hoarse, murmured question, but his breath was scorching and overly ambiguous.
Qi Ye had said something similar.
Was there really something wrong with her Mental Power?
While Chi Wan was bewildered, Shi Ye forced himself to sober up a bit.
He put distance between them.
A simple action, yet completely against his autonomy.
Not to expose his loss of control too much at this moment, he didn’t even dare release his Mental Entity.
Given his craving for her Mental Power just now, if the Black Wolf King appeared, it might do something even more unseemly.
This was something he couldn’t accept and absolutely wouldn’t allow to happen.
Dense footsteps came from behind.
“Commander, is there a situation? We sensed extremely strong energy fluctuations!”
“A large number of new pollution larvae. All three squads bring liquid flame guns for sterilization.”
His voice still held some of the hoarseness from his loss of control just now.
“Yes.”
Chi Wan didn’t dare look him in the eye anymore. She walked out, leaving this narrow tunnel that was suffocatingly stuffy.
However, Shen Yu walked toward her with a somewhat serious expression:
“Leave some people here to clean up. Latest news: that batch of pollution entities went to the nearby Field Location 024 pollution source, 3 kilometers away. K3 Base needs our support.”
K3 Base, the base where Pei Yuan belonged.
Chi Wan touched the Purification Stone in her pocket.
Great, she could finally return it to its original owner.
…
This time, due to time constraints, everyone boarded the combat airships directly.
When they arrived at the area marked as Field Location 024, a fierce battle was taking place below.
Chi Wan quickly followed the main force off the airship to join the battle.
But in the chaos, amidst the Sentinel team, she was suddenly bumped. As a large hand steadied her, she met a pair of dark gray eyes.
Behind the gold-rimmed glasses, the sharp eyes darkened upon seeing Chi Wan’s face, then he distanced himself from her with disgust.
Pei Yuan lowered his brow, turned around, and continued to join the battle.
How did she get here?
Truly unlucky.
Chapter 32: Die Here
Seeing his disgust for her, Chi Wan didn’t mind. She was even used to it. In the many days she had been here, wasn’t she just a pariah everyone hated?
Once she returned his Purification Stone to him, she would consider her debt paid.
But with his Teleportation ability, she didn’t even have time to speak, let alone take out the Purification Stone, before he vanished.
Then she would wait a bit longer. She would surely find a chance after the battle ended.
Thinking this, Chi Wan assisted the battle earnestly.
Her Mental Power was powerful and gentle, causing many Sentinels protected by her screen to glance at her during the intervals of fighting.
This SSS-rank Guide, rumored to have a vicious personality.
She looked harmless, even extremely beautiful.
If they hadn’t heard so many bad rumors about her, who wouldn’t be bewildered by such a beautiful appearance and powerful strength?
After more than an hour of high-intensity combat, the pollution entities on the ground were finally cleared.
Chi Wan followed the Sentinels forward. Field Location 024 was a newly marked field location. The pollution source was designed and wrapped layer by layer by high-level pollution entities, forming a medium-sized pollution mystic realm.
At the very front of the crowd, Pei Yuan was synchronizing information with Shen Yu and Shi Ye.
Chi Wan was a bit far away and couldn’t hear clearly.
She could only vaguely hear that this mystic realm had four underground passages, all leading to the unknown.
Shen Yu and Shi Ye each led a team, and the remaining two teams were left for Pei Yuan to distribute.
Everyone set off successively. Under the refraction of his lenses, Pei Yuan glimpsed the petite figure walking from the crowd behind him.
He slowly retracted his stride, turned sideways, and looked at the Sentinel behind him:
“Tan Yan, you lead a team to the third passage. Leave the last one to me.”
Hearing this, the tall Sentinel hefted the gun in his hand. Without any concern or worry, he was almost obedient:
“Okay, Commander.”
The crowd split into two dividing lines again.
There were three Guides here, one for each passage, leaving only Pei Yuan without a Guide following him.
Chi Wan looked at Pei Yuan walking alone toward the fourth passage and followed him without much thought.
Perfect. She would use this opportunity to return the Purification Stone and apologize.
Unlike the many complex passages in Thorn City, this underground passage seemed made of indiscernible material.
As soon as one stepped into the blood-red passage, the red light occasionally flashing on the mucous membrane walls added a weird atmosphere to the tunnel.
A closer look revealed that the red lights were actually red eyeballs. Embedded in the red mucous membrane walls, they turned weirdly, staring at the two of them.
This passage looked like a living creature.
Chi Wan swallowed and took out the searchlight at her waist to illuminate the road ahead, only to discover that it was empty!
He… teleported away directly?
As far as the light reached, there were only red mucous membrane walls.
Endless mucous membrane walls and red eyeballs.
This kind of medium-sized mystic realm was definitely composed of many bizarrely mutated pollution entities.
She was a Guide with no combat ability. Going in alone was simply seeking death.
Chi Wan wanted to retreat.
She turned around, only to find Pei Yuan instantly appearing in front of her.
He was smiling now. His face, white and bloodless, revealed a sinister look that was hard to read under the red light.
His leisurely words were unhurried, yet they made Chi Wan’s heart bristle:
“Where are you going, Guide Chi Wan?”
“I…”
Although scared, Chi Wan didn’t forget her purpose. She took the Purification Stone out of her pocket and handed it to him:
“This is your Purification Stone. I’m very sorry about before. I’m returning it to you now.”
Pei Yuan’s eyelids lowered slightly. His dark gray eyes turned brownish-red under the red light. The flickering red light caused shadows cast by his frames to emerge and fade interchangeably.
He quietly looked at the Purification Stone for a few seconds, then gracefully took it from her palm, pinching it gently between his fingertips to examine it closely.
After confirming it was the one left to him by his parents, he chuckled lightly and put the Purification Stone away carefully.
Every movement was gentle and elegant, and the smile on his face remained constant.
But behind him, the massive Astan Falcon soared into the air!
The Falcon, with its sleek dark gray gradient feathers and sharp eagle eyes, sped with extreme speed as soon as it appeared.
It circled and sprinted in the not-so-large passage, whipping up a fierce wind.
Chi Wan looked at this Mental Entity and knew he was very angry.
She had returned the Purification Stone to him; why was he angry?!
Her first reaction was to flee. However, just as she took a step, her vision blurred. She felt herself being lifted by the back of her collar. After a spell of dizziness, she appeared in a red swamp where the pollution fog was so thick it turned into pollution vapor, causing one’s pollution value to skyrocket rapidly.
She struggled in panic, only to see Pei Yuan in a clean and tidy combat uniform, standing high on the bank looking down at her. His eyes at this moment were scarier than the red eyeballs on the mucous membrane walls.
He patted his hands elegantly, as if he had just touched something filthy.
“Chi Wan—”
His voice remained calm and smiling.
The weird red slime gradually surging around made Chi Wan tremble all over in fear on the spot.
“Dying here is the most suitable end for you.”
After speaking, his figure disappeared from the bank, as if looking at her for one more second would dirty his eyes.
Chi Wan didn’t have time to complain. She frantically looked for an exit.
But in this closed, red, round mucous membrane wall weird swamp, there was no exit at all!
Without a Teleportation ability, one couldn’t get in, nor get out.
In the swamp bubbling with “gurgle gurgle” red bubbles, more and more red slime began to surface. Each of them had countless red eyeballs surging within. Upon seeing Chi Wan, they were so excited that their red light intensified.
Chi Wan urgently pulled out the short knife at her waist and stabbed at the mucous membrane wall.
The blade sliced into the wall, cutting an opening, but even more red slime and eyeballs flowed out from it.
They poured onto her body all at once.
[It’s over, it’s over, Host. We can’t get out of here. If this goes on, you’ll definitely be polluted and turn into a pollution entity. Call for outside help!]
Chi Wan’s pollution value soared. As it rose, her rationality faded madly. She opened her optical computer with trembling hands.
She couldn’t find a single person she could ask for help.
Find her nominal dad?
If Chi Yuzhou knew she was treated like this, he would definitely turn the world upside down, making countless enemies for her sake. When the truth was revealed, and her identity as the fake heiress was exposed, how could she repay all this?
In the contact list, a name with some warmth appeared in Chi Wan’s sight.
—Qi Ye.
He would save her, right?
Cornered, Chi Wan opened his chat box, like grasping the last straw.
She waved her knife to hack at the red slime frantically drilling toward her while typing in spare moments.
Under extreme nervousness, she even typed several typos.
“Qi Ye, I’m at Field Location 024, trapped in a… red swamp, save…”
Chi Wan, covered by red slime over half her body, swung her knife at them again.
The blade stabbed into the red slime and pulled out; the red slime was unharmed. Even stabbing at the eyeballs only caused them to deform extremely before recovering as before.
She cried in breakdown. After typing the word “me,” she quickly clicked send.
What responded to her was the system’s cold notification—
[You have been blacklisted by Qi Ye. Message delivery failed.]
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